Les Antiques de Nepal
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the Gaijatra festival.
It would be worth mentioning here, that, before 1950, many antiques must have traveled abroad due to lack of definite legislation. In fact it was only in 1952 that the Department of Archaeology was established and it was not until 1956 that the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act was passed. The law made it mandatory to acquire permission from the Department of Archaeology before any statue and other artifacts could be taken out of the country and it made it illegal to export artifacts more than a century old.
Besides, idols that had been objects of worship, even if for a day, were no more permitted to be taken out of Nepal since they were now a part of living culture.
However, in the period between 1960 to 1980, the tourism boom in the country resulted in widespread smuggling of antiques. In the 1980’s, due to more awareness, as
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